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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 21:53:43 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        "Michael C. Vergallen" <mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chris@calldei.com, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dos2unix
Message-ID:  <19990503215342.D10291@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905040425460.5566-100000@ws3.double-barrel.be>; from Michael C. Vergallen on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:45:33AM %2B0200
References:  <4.2.0.37.19990503194137.00d3a680@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905040425460.5566-100000@ws3.double-barrel.be>

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On Mon, May 3, 1999, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
> Yep well ... I think personally RMS's ideas are extreem but neccessary in

   Necessary?  He wants to force people to use open code.  He
also pushes that horrible license (which forces people to use
open code.  Hmm.).

   I wholeheartedly agree with Brett's song.

> the software world today... Becuase if poeple like RMS and others where
> not around the software bussiness would be the Mafia with protection
> rackets and all. Hell I find some of his ideas still to moderate...
> but I'm a exteemist and a true anarchist who has his own money so I can
> afford to be extreem ...it is easy to be extreem when you have the money 
> to bail you out when you get into trouble like I allready have been on
> three counts of copyright infringements because I did not bother asking
> someone to publish a certain report on the net ... but my lawyer took care
> of this and I continue to distribute that document in the public interest 
> and simply when they ask me to pay a fine well I let them ask for a while 
> and eventually pay when it suits me. 
> 
> Michael 
> --- 
> Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, 
> Sportstraat 28			http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/
> B 9000 Gent			ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/
> Belgium				tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976
> 			
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > At 06:59 PM 5/3/99 -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
> > 
> >  >   The truly sad thing is when people GPL their code knowing
> >  > exactly what they're doing.  Ever hear RMS sing?
> > 
> > It was truly an eardrum-shattering experience.
> > 
> > After hearing him exude his "free software" song, I spent 
> > the rest of the day with a rejoinder running through my head. 
> > It went to the tune of "Casey Jones:"
> > 
> > Verse:
> > 
> > Once upon a time there was an engineer
> > Richard Stallman was his name, we hear
> > He had a problem with anyone
> > Who made money off of software that makes computers run.
> > 
> > Chorus:
> > 
> > Stallman says: "You gotta share the software"
> > Stallman says: "So give it all to me!"
> > Stallman says: "You won't make a living
> > 'Cause whatever you sell I'll give away for free."
> > 
> > (There's more, but that's the basic idea.)
> > 
> > --Brett Glass
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>
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